The Third Annual Wood Tech Summit Leadership Conference is on tap for October 9-10 at the Woodworking Centre of Ontario at Conestoga College, Kitchener, ON. The event dovetails with Kitchener's world-famous Oktoberfest.

The Made-in-America furniture movement suffered a setback last month when Heritage Home Group announced it would close two Thomasville factories and a Lane factory effective March 21, putting more than 560 people out of work.

Steelcase Inc.'s iconic pyramid building is on the market for the drastically reduced price of $19.5 million. That's a far cry from the $111 million that Steelcase spent to build its former corporate headquarters and research facility, which opened in 1989.

September 10 is a day that will go down in Woodworking Network infamy. It was the first day WWN issued not one, but two breaking news alerts: Cardell Cabinetry Out of Business and Furniture Brands Files for Bankruptcy.